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Happy 14th Birthday Lilianna Rae

Love, Mom, Dad & Landon

Feature your birthday girl or boy in our BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS SECTION!

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STRANGE BUT TRUE

By Lucie Winborne * In the early 1800s, a railroad marketer set up a head-on collision between two trains as a publicity stunt. Some 40,000 people came to watch, and the resulting boiler explosion killed three spectators. But ticket sales soared, and railways everywhere staged train crashes right up until the Great Depression.

* One of the weirdest scandals in sports history occurred in 1973 when New York Yankees players Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich decided to trade families -- wives, children, even dogs! After the couples became close friends, Peterson fell in love with Kekich’s wife and vice versa. “It’s a love story. It wasn’t anything dirty,” Peterson told a reporter in 2013. Peterson is still married to the former Mrs. Kekich, but Kekich and the former Mrs. Peterson later split up.

* Pepper spray and tear gas are technically classifi ed as chemical weapons and thus are forbidden in warfare. 1. Lily cools off in Williamsburg, PA! 2. The beauty of summer! 3. Kiara and her Guinea pig at the Hemlock Fair! 4. Northern Flicker SPORTS • EVENTS CELEBRATIONS VACATIONS